About this title: This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in social and political theory.Habermas focuses on the liberal notion of the bourgeois public sphere as it emerged in Europe in the early modern period. He examines both the writings of political theorists, including Marx, Mill and de Tocqueville, and ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780262581080ISBN:0262581086
Description: Book is in Fair condition. Front endpage is missing, some of the top page margins have waviness to them, and a handful of pages have some ink underlines and margin notes. 301 pages. read more
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Edition: Later Softcover Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780262581080ISBN:0262581086
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Softcover., bump to back at top fore-corner. no other flaws. clean and sturdy copy. no writing or text marking, no remainder mark; xix-301pp. read more
Binding: S paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780262581080ISBN:0262581086
Description: Good. Stated First Paperback Printing; cover edges very faintly rubbed, rear flap very faintly soiled; top and bottom edges very faintly soiled; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and very clean except where noted. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780262581080ISBN:0262581086
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A Good copy. Light soiling, scuffing, and edge/corner wear to wraps. Light soiling to page edges. Light ink underlining to text. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780262581080ISBN:0262581086
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780262581080ISBN:0262581086
Description: New. This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find hi... read more
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"I hated this when I was forced to read large sections in Soc 670, but after a while, I understood the link between Bourdieu and more "contemporary" sociological standpoints."
"Habermas is a sucker for ideology. His laudatory treatment of the bourgeois public sphere is akin to deriving the existence of god from the divine right of kings. Still, there is much good history beneath the bad normativity here."
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